Vendor: Gigamic
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

In Looot, you need to gather resources and capture buildings to develop your fjord. Fill your longships and complete your construction sites in order to rack up your victory points. Store up the most riches, and you’ll be crowned Jarl of the Vikings!

Setup:

Assemble the gameboard using Landscape boards, placing 2 Houses, 2 Watchtowers, and 3 Castles in their corresponding spaces.
Place the Trophy board and 5 Trophies along one edge of the gameboard.
Place the Ocean board along one edge and put 30 Longships into a bag, drawing out 5 and placing them on Ocean spaces.
Create a reserve for Resources (Axes, Wood, Sheep, and Gold).
Each player selects a color and takes components: 1 Fjord, 13 Vikings, and 3 Shields.
Shuffle and distribute random Construction Site tiles (Ports, Altars, Jarl Palaces) to each player.
The player who lives furthest north goes first.


How to Play:
Placing a Viking (mandatory):

Vikings must be placed adjacent to another Viking or a Longship.
Vikings cannot be placed on a Resource space already occupied by another Viking.
Take a corresponding Resource tile from the reserve and place it on an empty space on your Fjord.
Check for capturing a Building; play passes to the next player if out of Vikings.


Capturing a Building (conditional):

Different rules for capturing Houses, Watchtowers, and Castles.


Buildings:

Houses: Capture by placing a Viking adjacent to a House.
Watchtowers: Capture by connecting two Watchtowers with Vikings of your color.
Castles: Capture by chaining at least 4, 8, or 12 Vikings of your color, with at least one adjacent to a Castle.


Longships:

Selecting a Longship (optional): Place on an empty space on your Fjord and draw another Longship for the Ocean board.
Filling Longships: Fill with indicated Resources to earn bonuses; unfilled Longships lose 5 victory points at the end.


Using a Shield (optional):

Use when placing a Viking for a specific advantage; flip the Shield after use.


Construction Sites:

Three types in your Fjord; complete by placing required Resources and Buildings adjacent to them.
Completed Construction Sites earn victory points.


Claiming a Trophy (optional):

At the end of your turn, claim a Trophy if you have enough Axes.
Place the Trophy on your Fjord with the victory points side visible.


Game End:

After all players have placed their Vikings, calculate victory points.
Add points for Castles, Watchtowers, Houses, Gold, Sheep, Wood, completed Construction Sites, and claimed Trophies.
Subtract 5 points for each unfilled Longship.
Player with the most points becomes the next Jarl; ties broken by highest value Trophy or shared victory if no tiebreaker.


—description from the publisher

Vendor: Game Factory
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Note: This game is in German.

“ This is the FUNNIEST dinosaur fossil site ever!”
An enormous amount of dinosaur fossils has been found. Excavation experts from all over the world gathered to excavate dinosaur fossils.
Can we find and restore dinosaur fossils then become the best diggers?
But be careful!
If we rush or excavate too aggressively,the unstable excavation site may collapse!

Players become experts in dinosaur excavation.

They will discover and restore dinosaur fossils buried under rocks. In their turn, they use tweezers to excavate fossil tiles. If a player collects one head, one tail, and two leg tiles of any dinosaur, they can restore and display dinosaur.

If a player restores one complete dinosaur with 4 parts of the same color, they will earn more points. Additionally, the players can earn additional points if they achieve the mission on mission tiles.

At the end of the game, the player with the most points wins.

-description from publisher

Vendor: Game Factory
Type: Board Games
Price: 45.95

Note: This game is in German.

“ This is the FUNNIEST dinosaur fossil site ever!”
An enormous amount of dinosaur fossils has been found. Excavation experts from all over the world gathered to excavate dinosaur fossils.
Can we find and restore dinosaur fossils then become the best diggers?
But be careful!
If we rush or excavate too aggressively,the unstable excavation site may collapse!

Players become experts in dinosaur excavation.

They will discover and restore dinosaur fossils buried under rocks. In their turn, they use tweezers to excavate fossil tiles. If a player collects one head, one tail, and two leg tiles of any dinosaur, they can restore and display dinosaur.

If a player restores one complete dinosaur with 4 parts of the same color, they will earn more points. Additionally, the players can earn additional points if they achieve the mission on mission tiles.

At the end of the game, the player with the most points wins.

-description from publisher

Vendor: Rebel
Type: Board Games
Price: 31.95

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 56.95

For centuries, creatures have enjoyed undivided rule over the depths of the ocean. Their kingdom, Abyss, is respected by all allied nations, happy to have their protection against fearsome underwater monsters. Soon, the throne will be vacant… And what if it’s time for you to claim it? Time is precious: only a few days remain before the next monarch will be chosen. You must spread your influence so you appear to be the only choice. It is urgent that you:

• affiliate the best representatives of the allied races
• recruit honored lords (and benefit from their powers)
• control important locations in the kingdom.

Your success depends on your ability to make the right choices. Bear in mind that in the depths of the sea money fuels conflict- so managing your precious pearls properly is key to controlling events – and, of course, luck only favors the bold!

Vendor: Asmodee
Type: Board Games
Price: 21.24

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Type: Board Games
Price: 21.95

Vendor: Asmodee
Type: Board Games
Price: 51.95

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Abyss is a game of development, combination and collection in which players try to take control of strategic locations in an underwater city. To achieve this, players must develop on three levels: first by collecting allies, then using them to recruit Lords of the Abyss, who will then grant access to different parts of the city. Players acquire cards through a draft of sorts, and the Lords of the Abyss acquired on those cards grant

Vendor: Rebel
Type: Board Games
Price: 28.95

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Type: Board Games
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Type: Board Games
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Type: Board Games
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Type: Board Games
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Vendor: Blue Orange Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.99

Vendor: Blue Orange Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 47.99

Vikings on Board is a family-strategy/worker-placement game in which your objective is to set sail with your clan of Vikings on board the ships best supplied for a successful voyage, while simultaneously placing bets on which clan you think will control each ship as they set sail.

Ships are divided into three sections: the front (bow), the middle (body), and the end (stern). During the course of the game, you will place supplies on the ships’ bows, while moving around their body pieces so that your clan has majority control of a ship when it sets sail. Stern pieces are used to show which ships have already set sail.

Each turn, the active player will perform one of the remaining available actions. Actions include: taking first pick of actions next round, rearranging ships' pieces (x4), placing bets on ships (x2), adding supplies to a ship (x2), increasing the value of supplies in the market, or setting sail.

When a ship sets sail, players will share its supplies in order of how many times their clan's shield appears on the body pieces of that ship. Starting with the player with the most shields, players will claim a supply token of their choice from the bow of the ship and place it facedown on their scoring circle. These supply tokens will score points based on their value in the market at the end of the game. Additionally, if a player placed a bet on the clan that had majority control of the ship, then they take their winning bet and place it facedown on their scoring circle.

The game ends after seven ships have set sail. Players calculate their final scores by adding together the value of their supply tokens with the value of their winning bets. The player with the most points wins.

Vendor: IELLO
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

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Type: Board Games
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Type: Board Games
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Smugglers Guild settled in the heart of the giant sea creatures cemetery, in the darkest depths of the Deep kingdom. In this disconcerting necropolis, with the help of mysterious Krakkens, representatives of Guilds are trading NEBULISES. Nebulises, wonderful black pearls, are the unofficial currency of the realm. That's money stained with blood. They accelerate your way to power, but be careful, because those who are caught on their possession awaits a terrible fate!

Abyss: Kraken is the first expansion for Abyss.

When playing with the Kraken expansion, base game rules doesn't change, although new elements are added:

7 New Allies cards
18 New Lord cards
3 Sentinel tokens
6 New location tiles
25 Loot cards
25 Black pearls (the Nebulis)
1 Kraken figure
1 transparent cup
1 Rulebook

Vendor: Argentum Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 68.95

In a distant time – so far in the future that either global warming or technical progress is so advanced that windmills are going swimmingly in the antarctic climate – the rising sea level and increased resource consumption has driven mankind to increase investment in polar research. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research sees an increasingly creative interpretation of the Antarctic Treaty System.

Your objective in Antarctica is to develop research centers in Antarctica and to mine resources – for research purposes only, of course. The sun orbits Antarctica counter-clockwise, and each ship it thaws moves on for scientific progress. At the end of the game, victory points for all kinds of majorities are granted. Will your consort be the one that gained a fortune ... er, has done most to rescue mankind?

Turn order is determined by the sun. Whenever it shines on one of your ships, you may erect buildings, recruit new scientists, build more ships, or do scientific research. The game ends when all buildings have been erected, or when one player has placed his last scientist.

Vendor: Blue Orange Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 31.99

Every one hundred moons, members from different tribes gather to sculpt new totems. The totems they create represent the values of their family, village, courage and culture. The tribe that makes the most prestigious totem poles wins the contest...

In Wakanda, players compete to create valuable totem poles, but the value of the poles is determined as much by where they stand as by what's in them. Each player starts the game with three headdresses. Six of eight village tiles are placed in a row, with three of the tiles tilted 90º to show that they're out of play; each tile has a unique scoring rule on it, and that rule will apply for all of a player's totem poles if he acquires that tile.

On a turn, a player first draws one totem pole from the bag; the game includes 21 totem pole pieces: one eagle, two chiefs, three tomahawks, four animal skins, five teepees and six suns. The player then either places one of his totem pole pieces on an available village tile OR places one of his headdresses on an existing totem pole to claim it; in the latter case, he places this tile in front of himself and tilts the next village tile in line (if any) to make it available for play.

Once all six poles have been claimed, the players tally their score based on the rules on their tiles, e.g. score 3 points per animal skin on all of your poles or score 2 points per piece for your tallest pole. High score wins.

Vendor: Ghenos Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Vinci, late 15th century: Someday Leonardo will become the great inventor and painter that we know so well today, but right now he is a young, exuberant, and inventive boy. He is always inventing the most incredible creations just by observing the world around him.

In Leonardo, players must collect inventions, gathering the right materials (i.e., cards) for each one. Each invention has a point value based on how complex it is and based on the required materials. Before starting the game, place six collection cards and three invention cards on the matching spaces on the game board. Place the three stand-up character pawns on the correct positions around the invention cards. All players share these characters and can use any of them that they want each turn.

On a turn, each player simultaneously reveals one of three character cards and one of three movement cards. The first player moves his chosen character clockwise around the circle the number of spaces shown on his movement card, then:

• If no cards are on the space, his turn ends;
• If a collection card is on the space, he places it face up in front of him;
• If an invention card is there and he has all of the required materials, he can take that card and the matching invention pawn; or
• If a painting card is there, he plays it immediately, gaining that card's special effect (take an extra turn, steal a player's material card, etc.)

The remaining players take their turns in clockwise order in the same manner, then the player to the left of the first player becomes the first player for the next turn.

If no invention or collection cards are available to fill spaces on the board, the game ends immediately. Players score points equal to the value of their inventions, plus 1 point for each material card they still have. The player with the highest score wins!